Q about Stablizing Video

[Clint Milner]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the info, I wish I could upgrade to CS5.5 right now, Warp Stabilizer looks like something I could use a lot with hand-held footage.

I’m guessing there’s not a solution for CS4…

Thanks,
Clint

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[Brian Charles]

[Dave LaRonde] “As always, if the look of hand-held isn’t desirable, it’s necessary to use primary motion stabilization: a tripod.”

Words of wisdom.

[Walter Soyka]

[Clint Milner] “I have a shot of some hand held footage that I’ve successfully stabilized using AE CS4. But now I have this bouncing frame moving all over the comp and now I’m in the process of animating the scale and X/Y position to keep the stable video in frame.”

This workflow will de-stabilize your video — you’ve removed the hand-held camera motion, but now you’re re-introducing motion and scaling to avoid cropping the frame.

If you want a solid shot, you’re better off finding the worst post-stabilization frame, then adjusting the scale up until the video layer is no longer cropped. The idea is to find one scale/position value that fixes the entire shot.

Walter Soyka
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[Clint Milner]

Thanks Walter, I’ll remember that in the future… this is some just some wedding speeches for a friend, so it’s not professional at all. I think I’ve lucked out a bit because it was shot with an HD camera, and I’m delivering on DVD, so most the noticeable movement has been fixed by doing this manually.

Thanks everyone.

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